Abstract:
The invention relates to a method and to a device, wherein a first blade-carrier head (13) is rigidly secured in an axial direction and counter to rotation to an axially fixed blade shaft (2), a second blade-carrier head (14) is arranged on an axially displaceable, play-free blade shaft (3) which is connected to the axially fixed blade shaft (2) by a drive connection such that the blade-carrier heads (13, 14) are disposed in an aligned manner on a plane enabling the blade gap adjusting device (4) to be displaced to a zero position from the blade shaft (3) which can be axially displaced in only one direction. The second blade-carrier head (14) is adjusted by rotating on the blade shaft (3) in such a manner that both of the blade-carrier heads (13, 14) form a gap which is equal to zero and that the second blade-carrier head (14) is axially secured to the blade shaft (3), in said position, and counter to rotation.
Abstract:
An apparatus for deforming, splitting and chopping of contaminated, or potentially contaminated, heat exchanger tubes into short tubes segments that easily may transported to an off-site location for decontamination or disposal. The invention has particular utility in dismantling potentially contaminated tubes from a tube bundle that is part of a condenser for a BWR or PWR nuclear power plant. The invention involves first gripping and deforming the exterior periphery of a potentially contaminated tube with opposed transverse forces sufficient to travel the tube longitudinally out of the tubesheets in a deformed condition, and then splitting the deformed tube into first and second wall sections which are chopped into short length wall segments. The deformation preferably flattens the tube so that the short wall segments are substantially planar, with exposed inner and outer surfaces.
Abstract:
A system for processing steel strips in a hot strip mill includes an apparatus and method for removing the oxide layer in the finishing mill process such that the final thickness of the oxide layer is much less than previously possible. In order to reduce the thickness of the oxide layer, the invention provides for the removal of oxide scales from the surface of the steel strips at a distance in front of the working rolls of the finishing mill that minimizes the time the strip is exposed to ambient conditions after it is descaled and before it is received between the pair of working rolls. By minimizing this exposure time, the thickness of the oxide layers in the finished strips is substantially reduced.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method of making reinforcements for concrete, in which a band material of a thin steel plate which has a certain thickness and a certain width and or which both ends are bent is fed until it contacts with a rotating cutter wheel having edges which height is approximately same as the thickness of the said plate, and the said material is cut so that reinforcements of a certain dimension are continuously made; and an apparatus therefor comprising a cutter wheel, a pushing plate and a supporter which constitute a cutting part, and some couples of belt pulleys to continuously feed the material, or further having an equipment to bend both ends of the said material.
Abstract:
A scrap materials processor is disclosed. The machine has a power driven feed mechanism. The rotary cutting head shears the scrap into small pieces. Pressure on the feed rolls may be manually increased or decreased as material is fed to the cutter head.
Abstract:
A motor-driven flywheel shaft mounts a cutter blade between a pair of flywheels. An identical cutter blade forms an anvil at the discharge end of a horizontal feed tube extending between the two flywheels. A stationary feed roller protrudes through an opening in the bottom of the feed tube and a companion feed roller protrudes through an opening in the top of the feed tube to provide a pair of pinch rolls for feeding elongated pieces of material, such as steel strapping, wire or plastic, which is to be cut into short lengths for storage or disposal. The shafts of the two pinch rolls are equipped with sprocket wheels driven by a chain from a sprocket wheel on a feed drive shaft which is driven by the flywheel shaft. The upper pinch roll is mounted on a rocker frame having pivotal movement on the feed drive shaft. Chain tension exerted in rotating the pinch rolls pulls the upper roll down toward the lower roll to grip and feed the material through the tube.
Abstract:
Apparatus for shearing into sections or fragments, the tubes containing nuclear fuel of combustion elements, and which are secured together by lateral, longitudinally-spaced tie rods or bands. After removal of the inert ends with which each element is commonly provided, the bundle of tubes, sans ends, is moved longitudinally by steps of 20 to 30 mm each, into a shearing apparatus wherein after each step the bundle of tubes is clamped to a fixed stop or surface and the projecting ends are sheared off by a reciprocating shearing tool to thus form a number of fragments of tube and fuel each. In the prior art when two successive shearing cuts were on opposite sides respectively, of a tie band, the band still held the cut fragments together in a unitary mass of excessive size, capable of clogging the pipes leading to the tank in which the fuel or the metal of the tubes is dissolved. To obviate that disadvantage the present invention incorporates into the reciprocating shearing tool, a shearing tooth projection fixed therewith and which is spaced ahead of the shearing edge of the tool in the direction of the working stroke. The construction is such that when a tie rod or band is advanced into position to be sheared off on the next stroke of the shearing tool, the projection first engages and shears the band to thus allow the subsequently-sheared fragments of fuel and tubes to disintegrate or separate as the tool completes its shearing stroke.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method and an installation for hot-rolling strips using a reversible Steckel rolling frame (8), each side of which is equipped with a respective furnace coiler (9, 10) and a driving mechanism (17, 18), provided between the furnace coiler (9, 10) and Steckel rolling frame (8). The aim of the invention is to crop particularly thin, hot strips. To achieve this, the strip is cropped during the reversible rolling process by a single pair of flying cropping shears (20), positioned between one of the driving mechansims (17) and the Steckel rolling frame (8). Said cropping shears comprise in particular a drum blade.
Abstract:
Steel fibers which commonly are comprised of a straight center section and S-shaped end sections are commonly produced in two manufacturing steps: In a first manufacturing step straight sheet steel strips are cut from sheet steel and the resulting steel fibers are then stamped to produce the desired final shape. A method is suggested which combines the stamping and cutting of the fibers into one single manufacturing step. For this purpose, the upper or lower cutting blades are provided with a respective cutting contour which corresponds to the desired final shape. The cutting edge contour has a parallel leading center section in the direction of cutting that is parallel to the surface of the sheet steel. The two end sections are recessed and have a wave-shape or flat S-shape. When using a rotating cutting tool the rotating roller may have axially adjacent individual groups of upper cutting blades so that from the end face of an undivided sheet steel a corresponding number of adjacent steel fibers may be produced in a combined stamping and cutting step.
Abstract:
A slide cradle is provided that includes a stationary well, a feed slide that is movable along the stationary wall, and a compactor wall this is disposed across from the stationary wall, rests upon a loading and compacting base, and is angularly adjustable about both ends, with this compactor wall being pivotably guided at one of the ends along a stationary side wall about a hinged support. The opposite, convexly curved free end of the compactor wall rests against a concavely curved side of the closure wall, with the convexly curved free end and the concavely curved side of the closure wall having the same center of curvature and being positively interconnected in such as way as to permit the convexly curved free end of the compactor wall to be guided along the concavely curved side of the closure wall.